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Levie Jacob "Louis" Fles (19 October 1872 – 24 May 1940) was a Dutch businessman, activist and author.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 43 relations: Adolf Hitler, Amsterdam, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Bank of Amsterdam, Bart Berman, Barthold Fles, Berlin, Boycott, Broadcasting, Business, Catholic Church, Cultural assimilation, De Groene Amsterdammer, De Vrije Gedachte, Freethought, George Fles, Giorgio van Straten, Helen Berman, Henri Polak, Humanism, Jewish assimilation, Jews, Joseph Stalin, Keppel, Netherlands, Maassluis, Michael John Fles, Nazi Germany, Nazism, New York City, Non-fiction, Olympic Games, Pseudonym, Rotterdam, Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), Socialism, Soviet Union, Suicide, Thijs Berman, Trotskyism, United States, Zionism, Zorgvlied (cemetery).

  2. Anti-Zionist Jews
  3. Drug-related suicides in the Netherlands
  4. Dutch atheism activists
  5. Dutch socialists
  6. People from Maassluis

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Bank of Amsterdam

The Bank of Amsterdam or Wisselbank (lit) was an early bank, vouched for by the city of Amsterdam, and established in 1609.

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Bart Berman

Bart Berman (ברט ברמן; born 29 December 1938) is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th-century music.

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Barthold Fles

Barthold "Bart" Fles (February 7, 1902 – December 19, 1989) was a Dutch-American literary agent, author, translator, editor and publisher. Louis Fles and Barthold Fles are Dutch non-fiction writers and writers from Amsterdam.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Boycott

A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Business

Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

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De Groene Amsterdammer

De Groene Amsterdammer is an independent Dutch weekly news magazine published in Amsterdam.

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De Vrije Gedachte

Vrijdenkersvereniging De Vrije Gedachte (DVG) (English: Freethinkers association The Free Thought), is a Dutch atheist–humanist association of freethinkers.

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Freethought

Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief.

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George Fles

George "Sjoppie" Fles (1908–1939) was a Dutch translator with a strong communist conviction. Louis Fles and George Fles are Dutch Jews, Jewish atheists and writers from Amsterdam.

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Giorgio van Straten

Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer and manager of arts organizations.

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Helen Berman

Helen Berman (הלן ברמן; born 6 April 1936) is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. Louis Fles and Helen Berman are Dutch Jews.

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Henri Polak

Henri Polak (22 February 1868 – 18 February 1943) was a Dutch trade unionist and politician. Louis Fles and Henri Polak are Jewish socialists.

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Humanism

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

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Jewish assimilation

Jewish assimilation (התבוללות, hitbolelut) refers either to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture or to an ideological program in the age of emancipation promoting conformity as a potential solution to historic Jewish marginalization.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Keppel, Netherlands

Keppel is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Gelderland, consisting of the villages of Laag-Keppel and Hoog-Keppel.

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Maassluis

Maassluis is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.

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Michael John Fles

Michael John Fles (born 11 November 1936), known both as John Fles and Michael Fles, is an American poet, editor, musician and film personality.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.

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Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands)

The Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij, SDAP) was a Dutch socialist political party existing from 1894 to 1946, and a predecessor of the social democratic Labour Party.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Thijs Berman

Thijs Berman (born 26 September 1957) is a Dutch former journalist.

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Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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Zorgvlied (cemetery)

Zorgvlied is a cemetery on the Amsteldijk in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the left bank of the river Amstel.

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See also

Anti-Zionist Jews

Drug-related suicides in the Netherlands

Dutch atheism activists

People from Maassluis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fles

Also known as Levie Fles, Levie Jacob Fles, Louis Jacob Fles.